76. LILIACEiE. 463 



strengthened by its known habitat near the opposite coast 

 of France, and particularly by its subsequent discovery in 

 Ireland. 



t Yucca glokiosa, Linn. 



Area [6]. 



Incognit. Although there is no reason for enumerating 

 this American plant among those of Britain, except the 

 accidental growth of a single example on the coast of 

 South Wales, the circumstance of its appearance there 

 seems deserving of record, as a remarkable fact bearing on 

 the introduction of foreign species into other countries than 

 their own. Mr. Dillwyn thus records the circumstance in 

 his ' Materials for a Fauna and Flora of Swansea : ' — " On 

 the sandy sea shore, opposite the Race-course on Crumllyn 

 Burrows, and more than a mile from any sort of house or 

 garden, Mr. L. L. Dillwyn, in 1839, found a thriving 

 young plant of Yucca gloriosa, and it had all the appear- 

 ance of having arisen from a seed which the tide had cast 

 there. Notwithstanding its exposed situation, and the 

 looseness of the soil, this native of Carolina was not mate- 

 rially injured by the unusually severe winter of 1840-1 ; 

 and Mr. Moggridge informs me that for two or three years 

 it continued to thrive, till it was destroyed by a heap of 

 shingle, which a violent storm and high tide threw over 

 it." 



1096. Asparagus officinalis, Linn. 



Area 1 2 (3 4) 5 6 7 8 (9 * * * * 14). 



South limit in Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent ? 



North limit in Anglesea, Lincoln .'' 



